Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in the arts and related occupations]
8. [people in the arts]
9. [people in the performing arts]

Narrower term/s

• dancers[+]
  • ballet dancers [+]
    • ballerinas
  • nautch dancers
  • fancy dancers
• actors (performing artists)[+]
  • phlyakes
  • narrators (actors)
• clowns
• comedians
• jesters
• musicians [NP][+]
  • arrangers (musicians)
  • composers (people in music)
  • conductors (musicians) [+]
    • bandmasters
    • precentors
    • choirmasters
  • singers [+]
    • payadores
    • opera singers
  • bandmembers
  • instrumentalists [+]
    • keyboard instrumentalists [+]
      • harpsichordists
      • organists
      • pianists
    • stringed instrumentalists [+]
      • banjoists
      • bassists
      • guitarists
      • lutenists
      • violinists
      • violists (instrumentalists)
      • violoncellists
      • harpists
      • fiddlers
    • wind instrumentalists [+]
      • bagpipers
      • buglers
      • clarinetists
      • flutists
      • oboists
      • trumpeters
    • percussionists [+]
      • drummers [+]
  • court musicians
• puppeteers
• storytellers
• griots[+]
  • griottes (storytellers)
• acrobats
• maskers[+]
  • Black Indians [+]
    • Mardi Gras Indians
• mimes (performers)
• harlequins (performing artists)
• entertainers
• koshares
• gisaeng

Anotations

Scope note:

People who practice the performing arts, such as such as singers, actors, dancers, acrobats, magicians, circus performers, comedians, etc. For persons who make performance art, considered a fine art and often seen in a museum, see "performance artists."